Brazil has experienced unprecedented wildfires in the last decade. Images of immense
burnt areas or dead animals that failed to escape the 2020 wildfires have shocked the world …

Indigenous Peoples have shaped and managed vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest for
millennia. However, evaluations of how much biodiversity is governed under Indigenous …

Despite the importance of earthworms for soil formation, more is needed to know about how
Pre-Columbian modifications to soils and the landscape. Gaining a deeper understanding is …

The status of tropical peatlands, one of Earth's most efficient natural carbon stores, is of
increasing international concern as they experience rising threat from deforestation and …

ABSTRACT The Arasbaran Protected Area of northern Iran encompasses 160,000 ha of
deciduous, broad-leaved forest with 78,560 ha recently designated as a United Nations …

Past human modification of forests has been documented in central, southwestern, and
eastern Amazonia, especially near large rivers. Northwestern Amazonia, and interfluvial …

William Denevan argued that pristine landscapes are a myth, including in Amazonia—
imagined by many as one of the last bastions of pristine Nature. During the last century …

Phylogeographic studies allow us to better understand the past history of species and the
factors that mold their current distribution. Here, we demonstrate the potential human impact …

As COVID-19 emerged as a phenomenon of the total environment, and despite the
intertwined and complex relationships that make humanity an organic part of the Bio-and …

Biodiversity is proposed as a sustainable alternative for the economic development of high-
biodiversity regions. Especially in the field of biodiversity genomics, the development of low …